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Sydney Bartlett leaves Liverpool in England for New Zealand. Meanwhile, his friend Beatrice ends up in Australia with her Aunt. After several adventures, Sydney hears news of Beatrice and travels to Australia to see her. Sydney asks Beatrice to marry him, and after her initial resistance is worn down by his persistent kindness, she says yes and they plan to settle in Victoria.
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Epigraph:
The years of man are the looms of God
let down from the place of the sun
Where we are weaving, every one,
till the mystic web is done.
Weaving blindly, but weaving surely,
each for himself his fate;
We may not see how the right side looks,
we can only weave and wait.'
(Anon.)
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